It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
Interpretation
Dependence on others' validation can jeopardize your creative freedom and integrity.
Spike Lee's quote warns against the perils of seeking external approval for one's work. When individuals begin to prioritize the opinions of others over their own creative instincts, they risk losing their unique voice and authenticity. This dependence can lead to compromise in their work, resulting in a loss of passion and innovation, as well as potential criticism that could deter them from pursuing their artistic vision.
In practice
During a speech at a creative arts conference, a speaker might use this quote to encourage artists to trust their instincts.
I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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